Snicket, Lemony.
Summary: A lump of coal that wants to be an artist, but would settle for making decorative marks on a piece of grilled meat, rolls out of a forgotten bag of charcoal one winter and takes a spin through town seeking a miracle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Holiday Snicket 2008House, Silas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOUKnight, Mary, (E. Mary)
Summary: Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KNIWalter, Jess
Summary: "Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Walter 2020O'Dell, Tawni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ODEHickam, Homer H.
Summary: Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICWhite, Ruth
Summary: In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2008
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Watson, Jan.
Summary: With her husband away on a job, doctor Lilly Corbett Still turns to Armina, her neighbor, for companionship, but finds herself in a mess when someone breaks into her clinic and Armina ends up bedridden with an abandoned baby on her doorstep.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATHarnett, Natalie S.
Summary: "Set amongst the deadly coal mine fires of 1960s Pennsylvania, The Hollow Ground is an extraordinary debut that will "grab you by the brisket and not let go." (Gary Shteyngart) "We walk on fire or air, so Daddy liked to say. Basement floors too hot to touch. Steaming green lawns in the dead of winter. Sinkholes, quick and sudden, plunging open at your feet."The underground mine fires ravaging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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Summary: A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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Summary: "Detective Isaac Bells wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the attempted assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agendaone involving the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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Summary: When NUMA Director Dirk Pitt finds a document inside an antiquated submersible left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell, it reopens a mystery involving an international power scheme aimed at seizing control of a rare element.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction CusPhillips, Gin.
Summary: Witnessing what she believes to be the murder of an infant in a Depression-era Alabama mining town, a nine-year-old girl and her civic-minded family subsequently struggle with the darker side of their racially torn community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts 2009
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Summary: Shae-Lynn Penrose has spent years building a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town in which she grew up, but her life is thrown into disarray by the arrival of the younger sister she had thought dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ODEMcNees, Kelly O'Connor
Summary: In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNMobley, Jeannie.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Trina's family left Bohemia for a Colorado coal town to earn money to buy a farm, but by 1901 she doubts that either hard work or hoping will be enough, even after a strange fish seems to grant her sisters' wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOBStrohmeyer, Sarah.
Summary: Racing to an abandoned coal mine where she has been told she will find a big news story, Bubbles Yablonsky instead finds her boyfriend out cold and the body of a murdered man nearby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRSchwartz, Joanne (Joanne F.)
Summary: Throughout his day, a young boy thinks of his father who is working in the coal mine that is located underneath the ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017
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Summary: After the Alden siblings visit their Great-Aunt Jane's ranch in a mining town, there is a mysterious fire which damages three houses, but Benny's friend Mike notices a strange man in a blue hat in the paper and Mike and Benny suspect he may be the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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Summary: Former police officer Shae-Lynn Penrose now drives a cab in the coal mining town she grew up in. Five of her friends still struggling with memories of being trapped in a mine two years earlier. Shae-Lynn finds herself facing harsh realities and reliving bad dreams of her own including her relationship with her brutal father, her conflicted passion for one of the miners, and the hidden identity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2007
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Summary: In 1870s England, Jonathan Blair, a mining engineer who returned from Africa, is hired by the owner of a coal mine to find a man missing after a pit explosion, a man many people don't want found. In the process he falls in love with Rose, a tough pit girl. The novel is at once a mystery, a love story and a critique of English society, the hero being an Anglophobe. By the author of Gorky Park.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SMITanenbaum, Robert.
Summary: While New York City sizzles beneath a blanket of early summer humidity, the Karp family is happily taking refuge in their renovated farmhouse on Long Island's north shore. Karp's battles against the city's corrupt politicians are never-ending. His wife, Marlene, is training guard dogs; Lucy is enjoying her summer break from Boston College. The tide quickly changes, however, when Marlene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2002